Deuteronomy 22:21
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
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Gill's Exposition
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband,..... This law respects adultery, and is the same with that in Lev 20:10.
then they shall both of them die; with the strangling of a…
These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the door of her father's house Not at the town's gate (as in other cases, Deu 22:22; Deu 17:5), because it was her father's house which she had dishonoured. Therefore instead of to play the harlot,…
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